Urban Honking

Hey Friends. I am on the board of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls – a non-profit that builds self-esteem in young girls through music appreciation and performance. We are having a 10-year celebration / rock ‘n’ roll auction on 4/2 at the Tiffany Center. Tickets start at $15 with special pre-party tickets at […]

Death Magazine, that is. Issue 3 is out now for your viewing pleasure. It’s free to view online here: www.deathmag.com – lots of great work in there. Nice to see John McKensie of Creativity Explored – we featured his work for the cover of Plazm 24. Also be sure to take a few minutes and […]

Plazm editor Jon Raymond co-wrote the teleplay with Todd Haynes for this upcoming HBO miniseries. The series received a warm reception in today’s NY Times. The five-part series begins to air next Sunday with parts one and two. Part three will be shown on April 3rd, and parts four and five on April 10th. Check […]

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As much as it feels like blasphemy to say, sometimes books are better than the internet. As I mentioned before I’m reading Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals (AMZN). This one is going to take a while because I want to work through it carefully and it’s very dense, so I’m only reading it when […]

I’m not the only one thinking about changing the week. The State of Oregon is considering shifting state employees’ schedules to four ten-hour days and then three days off. Though this isn’t in the spirit of the six-day week, I am pleased to see a major organization thinking about how the calendar affects productivity, and […]

I’ve finished reading The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week by Eviatar Zerubavel. And it was fascinating. I expected to learn some facts; historical context and sociological observations into the week would shed light on my project. But I didn’t expect the book to be so full of jaw-dropping revelations. For […]

An evening of words and music with Emily Chenoweth, Margaret Malone, Gigi Little, Nora Robertson and indie quartet Leaves Russell.  Two cans of food benefits the ASPSU Student Pantry food bank.  Backspace, 5-7:30PM, FREE. — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — plazm design studio: www.plazm.com — — plazm magazine & blog are now […]

Plazm editor Jon Raymond wrote this lovely film. You should go.Meek’s Cutoff: A Screening to Benefit the Cultural Trust Tuesday, March 15 · 7:00pm – 9:00pm Location Salem/Historic Elsinore Theatre/170 High Street SE Created By Oregon Cultural Trust More Info Catch this entirely-made-in-Oregon feature film before its theatrical release AND benefit the Cultural Trust. By the same team […]

Originally aired Friday February 25th, 2011. The show was a discussion of Cedar Rapids history with a roundtable of local Iowans, informed by a 62-page dossier on the city of Cedar Rapids compiled by Gary Lacrosse. Gary compiled the dossier in reaction to the recently released film “Cedar Rapids,” which he feels misrepresents the city, […]